Hello everyone and welcome to the next build of Hazelnut Latte!

If you are a $10 Patron you can play the game here!

It has been almost 2 months since any new content has come out for any of my games, and I am excited to bring the latest build of my flagship title to you all today!

Hazelnut Latte v0.5 has some awesome new features!

• Over 1,500 lines of code! (This is the largest update by far, with the game only having 1,700+ lines before this update) This includes a ton of dialogue with Hazel as you two go on a date and get to know each other!
• New background illustration for Cafe Estro!

• New logo for the game!

• Remade the lewd scene where you spy on Hazel making your latte!

• Two new locations: Inside and outside Noto's Notorious Cuisine! A restaurant you take Hazel to.

• Two new lewd scenes! You can't get them both in the same playthrough, so experiment ;)
• One new character: Jeze! He is a waiter at Noto's who will be the main focus in the next update.

• A special illustration of Hazel done by an artist named Kola. You should go follow him, he does really amazing work.

And that is all the major changes! I'm pretty sure I went back and tweaked a few things, but this is the big stuff.

Plans for v0.6?

So the next update is not going to be as big. Since this will be a smaller update, I hope to get it out faster, but it will likely be released after Our Last Spring Episode 2, which I am pretty far along on.

I want to try to implement a gallery system? A way to replay lewd scenes and also unlock special art pieces.

There will be 2 lewd scenes with Jeze and dialogue with him, but the "main plot" will not be advanced, so to speak.

I will be redoing the scene where Hazel gives you a blowjob in the cafe, which is already underway.

I have a new artist I am trying out to see if they will take over doing sprites. They are currently drawing a new sprite for Hazel as a barista. If we both like what they are doing, I am going to hire them on to do all the sprites in the game.

My goal is to have a very consistent style for the game with someone doing lewd scenes and someone else doing sprites. That way it is clear when it is a story scene and when it is a lewd scene. Though I may have the occasional guest artist, like Kola. But these will be for special moments or events.

If you couldn't already tell, I am slowly phasing out the art we originally had for the game. If you liked that art, I apologize for it's eventual absence, I loved it too. But I want a consistent style and don't want drastically different art styles interacting. (I tried it and it hurt my brain)

It's a lot of work, time, and money but I am doing my best!

Closing Words

I hope you enjoy the new update! If you run into any issues or errors, please let me know. You are basically my QA Beta testers, so if shit is broke, lemme know so I can fix it. I've run through the game a bunch of times with different variables, but I'm just one guy. But also feel free to let me know if you have any other thoughts about the game. Do you hate it? Do you love it? Let me know :)